WBSSC job case: Calcutta HC raises questions on new recruitment notification

Justice Bhattacharyya, on Tuesday, additionally sought explanations from the West Bengal authorities and the WBSSC on these two factors.

As per the brand new notification issued in Might, the written examination within the recent recruitment course of will carry 60 marks, as towards 55 for the 2016 panel.

Secondly, the weightage criterion for academic qualification within the recent recruitment course of is simply 10 as towards 35 for the 2016 panel.

Most significantly, two new weightage standards, every carrying 10 marks, ‘previous educating expertise’ and ‘lecture demonstration’, have been launched within the new recruitment course of.

Quickly after the notification was issued, a number of authorized minds apprehended that the notification confronted authorized hurdles due to the modifications in weightage standards in whole marks distribution.

Final month, the petition was filed on the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom difficult the notification primarily on these two grounds on which Justice Bhattacharya raised questions on Tuesday.

On April 3, the Supreme Courtroom’s division bench of erstwhile Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar upheld a earlier order by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Shabbar Rashidi cancelling 25,753 college jobs in West Bengal.

The apex court docket additionally accepted the commentary of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom that your entire panel of 25,753 candidates needed to be cancelled due to the failure of the state authorities and the fee to segregate the “untainted” candidates from the “tainted” ones.

The state authorities and WBSSC had already filed evaluate petitions on the apex court docket on this concern.